Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

All of us want to be part of something bigger than ourselves, something that matters.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.

Clothing doesn't really change a man. But it changes how others react to him.

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

They tell you that at his age, all they do is eat, sleep, and poop. And what I've learned is they can actually do all three at the same time. Who knew?

I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me into that position at some point, too.

It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.